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On the walls hang vintage sepia photographs of Thai royalty dating back to the middle of the 19th century, among them King Chulalongkorn, the first Thai monarch to honour the hotel with a personal visit in 1890, though by no means the last. A divided stairway leads up to the second floor containing the Noel Coward, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, and James Michener Suites, as well as two new ones named after Adisorn Charanachitta and Sir James Holt, prominent local figures who had a close association with The Oriental. Each of these sumptuous suites has its own distinctive ambiance. The Joseph Conrad Suite, for instance, in addition to antique furnishings, now has a new balcony from which one can look down on the jungle-like garden and the river where just a year after the hotel���s opening the future writer, then an obscure seaman named Jozef Teodor Konrad Korseniowski, took over his first command of a sailing ship. The Noel Coward Suite is suitably sybaritic, with silk-covered walls in a traditional Thai pattern, canopied beds, a selection of works by and about the playwright, and a breakfast table by a HYLAND